Christoph August von Bredow

Christoph August von Bredow , also August Christoph von Bredow (born February 29, 1780 in Eichhorst (Mecklenburg-Strelitz) , † July 21, 1844 in Schwanebeck ) was a German agricultural expert and landowner in Prussia.

Life

Christoph August von Bredow was the son of Caspar Matthias von Bredow (* May 16, 1729, † March 31, 1787 in Eichhorst) and Friederike Sophie Johanna, born. von Peccatel (born November 15, 1751 in Weisdin , † December 25, 1780 in Blumenow ).

After the death of his father Bredow grew up with his uncle Asmus Wilhelm von Bredow (born January 4, 1731 in Prillwitz, † September 18, 1799 in Markau) on Gut Prillwitz near Hohenzieritz / Neubrandenburg. In 1802 he married his cousin Karoline Sophie Friederike von Bredow (born March 25, 1781 in Prillwitz, † December 26, 1864 in Berlin) the daughter of Asmus Wilhelm von Bredow from his second marriage to Dorothea Ernestine, née. von Kosboth from the house of Schependorf (born June 1, 1751 in Neustrelitz; † March 22, 1793 in Markau). His cousin Henning August , his wife's brother, thus became his brother-in-law.

His father-in-law and uncle Asmus Wilhelm von Bredow inherited the Markau estate and also the Schwanebeck estate from his cousin Henning Caspar IV von Bredow (1742–1788). This was considered irascible; In 1781 he wanted to beat up the district administrator in Markau, only the pardon by the old Fritz saved him four years of imprisonment.

Asmus Wilhelm von Bredow built a simple but noble mansion on Gut Schwanebeck after 1788. After his death, Christoph August von Bredow inherited Gut Schwanebeck. Christoph August von Bredow died in 1844. He is said to have been buried in the church at Schwanebeck. However, there is a rumor and probably also indications that he was buried in the manner of Old Fritz along with his favorite horse on the south side not far from the Schwanebecker See.

Karl Friedrich Wilhelm von Bredow (1796–1862) took over his legacy at Gut Schwanebeck, who gave the Schwanebeck manor house its final formative dimensions by enlarging it: an eleven-axis building and a stately living area on an unusually high base.

The manor house remained the residence of the von Bredow family until after 1910, later Count Wilhelm von Redern bought the life work of Christoph August von Bredow, Gut Schwanebeck. The remains of the mansion were demolished in 2003.

Social work

Bredow was chairman of the " General Widow's Catering Establishment", which was founded in 1775 and an integral part of the Berlin Society as one of the directors of the main knighthood of the Kur- and Neumark , member of the Monday Club and the lawless society founded on November 4, 1809 in Berlin .

Despite the social life in Berlin, he remained closely connected to agriculture and the Schwanebeck estate. Through his acquaintance with Albrecht Daniel Thaer , probably the most famous agricultural reformer of the Mark Brandenburg, Christoph August von Bredow developed into an agricultural expert. He was a flourishing admirer of Albrecht Daniel Thaer and his theories of modern agriculture, through their practical implementation in terms of a scientifically sophisticated crop rotation and fertilization adapted to the soil conditions, he developed the Schwanebeck estate, which was facing economic problems, into a model estate until 1820. The von Bredow family owed their survival at Gut Schwanebeck to this efficiently oriented agriculture.

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1. ↑ He was a great-grandson of Henning Caspar II von Bredow (* 1658; † July 19, 1715 )
2. ↑ Pedigree under RootsWeb’s
3. ↑ ^{a b} The Funkstadt Nauen - OT Schwanebeck ( Memento from January 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
4. ^ The lawless society in Berlin
5. ^ French page above those of Bredow

Web links

• Literature about Christoph August von Bredow in the state bibliography MV